Well if he wasn’t a terrorist before he was now.
‘Liason Officer’ Hoffbauer. Had a weird ring to it. He always assumed people with titles like that had synth-leather chairs and smoked imported cigars. In an office with those green lamps you always saw in legal dramacasts.
He’d decided to lean into his heresy in going from PanO to Yu Jing. Would it still count as treason? The papers were filled out to transfer his citizenship. Hopefully it wasn’t like a divorce where papa PanO would have to sign off on it for it to be official.
He checked his messages for the umpteenth time. He’d been chatting with a blackjack pilot who’d worked O-12 contracts to get the “scoop” on his next article. Weird that the imperial agents insisted on accompanying him. He guessed it’d take a solid decade or two before they started trusting him. Or at least slipped up enough to stop watching him so close.
He was lost in thought trying to coax a fart out when his handler-agent spoke sharply;
“Xiānsheng Hoffbauer, please remain here. We are hearing chatter on dark radar.”
Dark radar? Why on Neo-T would they be sweeping for that?
Mission: Acquisition
300 pts
Area: The pit, ops
Ariadna won initiative and vied to go second, deploying first.
Me (Yu Jing ISS) deployed second, going first.
I splayed my squishy Kuang Shi in a long line at the edge of deployment, hoping to catch one of my opponent’s camo-tokens in a chain rifle burst.
My kuang shi did very little, got a few shots off and discovered/lured a few of my opponents NINE camo tokens out of camo before being all mowed down. Suffering especially from sniper fire from what would later be revealed as a lieutenant and special character sniper nest.
My main order pool was deprived of 2 by my opponent’s used of command ehm….I forgot the term. Command tokens?
My data tracker/Su-Jian miraculously took out a missile-launcher-armed LI on the other end of the board and then went into suppressive fire.
My Hsien Lieutenant advanced and took a few pot-shots before revealing his Lieutenant order to also go into suppressive. This choice won me the game.
My opponent activated his blackjack into what should’ve been a killing spree but suffered obscene luck and fell to my Hsien’s Suppressive fire after a few exchanges. The same happened when his own Lieutenant, elevated (had the high ground!) and behind cover, fell too to suppressive fire, taking him into loss of lieutenant and also losing him all his big guns.
This round of really unlikely luck, good and bad, had us call game, gaining me a point minimum to claim victory and allowing Ariadnans to pull out with minimal casualties.
Hoffbauer clenched to keep from browning his pants. Turns out getting practiced at firefights was actually making him worse at handling them. He’d huddled down after the first gun-cracks. The Pheasant Agent calmly kept watch at the corner.
He’d have to find another interviewee for his article. And another pair of shorts.
Wow, that clustered CG link seemed really fragile – good you managed to make them out in one piece.
YEEEES! WOOP WOOP!
Very nice! Excellent table you have here!
Congratulation, Commander!
Very well done! Such a good job on those images
Nicely done!